All Building Design articles in WA100 2013 – Page 6
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WOODS BAGOT
University of Sydney Business School Woods Bagot 2013 rank: 17 Country: Australia Last ranking: 14 Architects employed: 565 In a vote of confidence for the ailing west, Woods Bagot chose to open its 14th studio in Los Angeles, focusing on sport. For now, most of its work is in China, ...
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AXS SATOW
Waterras, a mixed-use development in Tokyo AXS Satow 2013 rank: =69 Country: UK Last ranking: 61 Architects employed: 158 With five offices in Japan and China, AXS Satow’s outlook is naturally regional. Its focus for 2013 will continue to be local government, university, medical and healthcare facilities in Japan. However ...
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AUKETT FITZROY ROBINSON
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson 2013 rank: 91 Country: UK Last ranking: 83 Architects employed: 114 Britain’s only listed architect returned to the black last year thanks to a strong performance in the Middle East and Russia where it won a number of new jobs. Aukett reported a £173,000 pre-tax profit for ...
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ATKINS
Pacific Dream Plaza, Qingdao, China Atkins 2013 rank: 16 Country: UK Last ranking: 15 Architects employed: 597 Atkins had a good Olympics. It was the official engineering design services provider for London 2012 and worked with Arup and Allies Morrison to provide all the bridges and roads in ...
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Wilmotte Associates 35,000-seat stadium in Nice, France Wilmotte Associes 2013 rank: 76 Country: France Last ranking: 70 Architects employed: 149 Wilmotte Associés works mainly in France, but is also designing one of the office buildings in London’s King’s Cross redevelopment. And the Parisian practice was shortlisted ...
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Qatari embassy in Manila, Philippines, by Palafox. Palafox Associates 2013 rank: 92 Country: Philippines Last ranking: =89 Architects employed: 112 The Philippines’ second-biggest practice has been working on some interesting projects over the past year. It was commissioned by the American Battle Monuments Commission to masterplan and design the expansion ...
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CP KUKREJA ASSOCIATES
Sikka Dream Heights, Uttar Pradesh, India CP Kukreja Associates 2013 rank: 81 Country: India Last ranking: =79 Architects employed: 130 New Delhi-based CP Kukreja Associates was founded in 1969 as an architectural practice and has grown into a multi-disciplinary firm. It specialises in educational campuses and recently won the design ...
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WILSON ASSOCIATES
Park Hyatt Hotel, Abu Dhabi Wilson Associates 2013 rank: =73 Country: USA Last ranking: =75 Architects employed: 150 Luxury hotels account for nearly three-quarters of Wilson Associates’ work, with restaurants, resorts, casinos, boutique hotels and high-end residences — “including palaces” — making up the rest. This Texas-based practice mostly works ...
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RTKL ASSOCIATES
Baraya development Doha Qatar RTKL 2013 rank: 43 Country: USA Last ranking: 17 Architects employed: 269 RTKL has dubbed 2013 the Year of the Tower, and with good reason. It is set to complete no fewer than eight — seven in China and one in Indonesia — ranging in height ...
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GVA & ASOCIADOS
Central American World Trade Centre in Colombia GVA Asociados 2013 rank: =65 Country: Mexico Last ranking: 63 Architects employed: 160 The WA100’s only Mexican practice continued its overseas expansion, adding offices in Panama and the Dominican Republic. This followed the launch of its first foreign office, north of ...
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ARUP
Source: Arup Associates Singapore Sports Hub Arup 2013 rank: 47 Country: UK Last ranking: 60 Architects employed: 226 Things are looking significantly rosier for Arup after its annus horribilis in 2011, when it had to shed 670 staff after a number of key projects were cut by the UK ...
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LINK ARKITEKTUR
Northern Lights Cathedral, Alta, Norway Link Arkitektur 2013 rank: 6 Country: Norway Last ranking: 67 Architects employed: 177 Surely the prize for one of the most unusual projects in World Architecture this year goes to Link for its $20 million Northern Lights cathedral. The building, which will be consecrated in ...
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WHITE ARKITEKTER
Tele2 Arena, Stockholm White Arkitekter 2013 rank: 36 Country: Sweden Last rank: 34 Architects employed: 306 White doubled the number of countries out of which it operates when it opened offices in London and Oslo last year. Previously it only had studios in Sweden and Denmark. “Our foreign clients want ...
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HENN ARCHITEKTEN
Nantong Sports Center, Nantong, China Henn 2013 rank: 41 Country: Germany Last rank: 44 Architects employed: 280 Following its spectacular success in scooping the 450m Haikou Tower in China from under the noses of Zaha Hadid, Will Alsop, Wilkinson Eyre and Broadway Malyan, this German practice has done it again. ...
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AS ARCHITECTURE-STUDIO
Jinan Cultural Centre, China AS Architecture Studio 2013 rank: =73 Country: France Last ranking: 68 Architects employed: 150 Most of AS Architecture-Studio’s work came from Europe, China and the Middle East in 2012. In 2013 it is hoping to increase its presence in African markets. Its most significant projects included ...
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HDR ARCHITECTURE
Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto, Canada HDR Architecture 2013 rank: =12 Country: USA Last ranking: 10 Architects employed: 640 This time last year the healthcare, technology and criminal justice specialist said it wanted to expand into China and Australia. And it has: it opened two offices in China and one ...
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COX ARCHITECTURE
One One One Eagle Street, Brisbane, Australia Cox Architecture 2013 rank: 39 Country: Australia Last rank: 45 Architects employed: 289 It has been a year of significant market shifts for Cox, in terms of geography and typology. As uncertainty reigned in the Middle East, it shut one of its two ...
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ISHIMOTO ARCHITECTURAL
Ota-City General Gymnasium Ishimoto Architectural 2013 rank: 59 Country: Japan Last ranking: =57 Architects employed: 188 The venerable Japanese practice founded in 1927 by Kikuji Ishimoto celebrated its 85th birthday last year. In the intervening years it has gone on to design pretty much the full range of building types: ...
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DEVEREUX ARCHITECTS
NETDA is a masterplan for Biospark, a 186 ha site for the new Lifescience hub in Nantong. Devereux Architects 2013 rank: =65 Country: UK Last ranking: =93 Architects employed: 160 The architectural arm of Ireland’s multi-disciplinary PM Group works mainly in Britain, central and eastern Europe and the Middle East ...
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PRP ARCHITECTS
Kai Jiang scheme or ‘Golden Box’, a mixed use retail and multiplex entertainments centre in Szechuan Province, China PRP Architects 2013 rank: 90 Country: UK Last ranking: =86 Architects employed: 119 PRP hasn’t looked back since it opened its first office in China three years ago in response to shrinking ...